USB Expert Witnesses
USB expert witness candidates typically have advanced degrees and extensive experience in computer science and/or electrical engineering. Specific expertise in computer software, firmware or computer forensics may be requested for a litigation support role. Cahn Litigation Services has been approached by numerous legal teams to locate expert witnesses, on behalf of either the plaintiff or defendant, that can support cases involving USB (Universal Serial Bus) technology. Most often the expert witness chosen is member of an industry organization such as the IEEE. A USB expert witness must have a deep understanding not only of the target technology, but also of the current standards and protocols, market share and the developing technologies of the industry’s leading players. It is essential that an expert witness possess the ability to provide expert testimony in such a manner that a jury and judge can understand the factual evidence.
Often, matters requiring USB expert witness services involve intellectual property, such as patent infringement litigation or trade secret disputes.
In a USB technology litigation, an expert can anticipate expert witness services such as depositions, an expert report, reverse engineering, forensic analysis, trial testimony, and related consulting activities. In high a profile case, or litigation involving a significant financial stake, previous expert testimony experience is often a requirement.
Cahn Litigation Services has completed numerous searches for a USB subject matter expert, providing candidates for each case to the specifications provided by the law firm. Cahn Litigation Services has the experience required to turn a search for an expert witness around quickly and provide experts with the right balance of expertise and testimony for the job at hand.
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USB Expert Witness - Representative Bios
Please Note: All Cahn Litigation expert witness searches are customized to attorneys' precise specifications and preferences. Attorneys are encouraged to discuss search parameters with a Cahn search specialist.
The below expert witness bios represent a small fraction of those USB experts known by Cahn Litigation Services. These bios are provided to give lawyers a sense of the USB landscape.
Expert Witness #246479
This expert is the founder and Principal Engineer of a nationally recognized consultancy specializing in Power Electronics and Power Delivery. This expert has deep expertise in the design and implementation of power electronics systems including protocols that support power & data concurrently, such as USB/PoE/HDBaseT/etc. This expert is very familiar with the USB standards, having worked as a Tier 1 power vendor to major OEMs. This expert has extensive experience in application power solutions, and many other aspects from design through manufacturing & implementation as well as through worldwide distribution and customer experience in the field. This expert has designed/architected numerous power electronics solutions for many types of systems that have implemented USB as well as evaluated appropriate supplier components, tested/debugged/qualified systems, and improved manufacturing/quality processes that facilitate putting high-quality, high-volume electronics into the field. This expert brings to the table a unique, global perspective in the area of power electronics having experienced all aspects of the field from engineering to supply chain & manufacturing to business/sales/marketing to customer experience and WW global logistics so this expert can relate all the pertinent motivations/detractors of a technical analysis against all these factors as well as provide unique perspective on how all these constituents may be impacted. This expert has not served formally as an expert for litigation, though this expert has received some training and provided some inside consultation. Further, this expert has been deposed, as a former employee in roles of both witness and plaintiff. This expert is comfortable with this process and has some understanding of how to approach a deposition given the desired outcomes of the different Plaintiff & Defendant attorney perspectives.
Start USB Expert SearchExpert Witness #249681
This expert brings to the table many years of experience in computer system new technology architecture definition, analysis and specification. Widely respected for the ability to generate, articulate, and critically analyze: technical proposals, concepts and specifications, this expert has extensive hands-on experience with prototyping/debugging/analysis of hardware/firmware/software. This expert is also the holder of 62 patents usually as the lead inventor; 12+ as solo inventor, and approximately 12 patents pending, in a variety of computer system areas including: operating system device drivers, BIOS, 3D graphics, serial buses (such as USB), disk caches, memory buses. For example:
- System for copying device driver stub in allocated portion of system memory corresponding to receiving resource to enable device driver execution from resource memory- Preservation of a computer system processing state in a mass storage device- System for enabling access to device driver residing in resource memory corresponding to coupled resource by allowing memory mapping to device driver to be executed- Two part memory card socket connector and related interrupt handlerThis expert has extensive expertise in PCMCIA (as one of the authors of the PCMCIA software interface specifications; Socket and Card Services). In addition to expert witness work, including written reports and deposition, this expert has been involved in several PTO Office Actions to resolve questions pertaining to pending patent applications. This expert has frequently been asked to review patents from other inventors to clarify novelty of a pending patent.
Start USB Expert SearchExpert Witness #249894
This expert brings to the table many years working experience in electronics/firmware product development of various and diversified technologies. This expert is intimately familiar with PCMCIA card technology, having designed with this technology numerous times requiring this expert to be familiar with all aspects of operation (timing, DC/AC characteristics, etc.). This expert designed a unique memory card based headphone for a client which won an Engineering Innovation Award. This expert has managed and implemented the invention technologies yielding numerous patents in consumer, industrial, medical, and military products. This expert designed all circuit hardware containing microcontroller, FLASH memory, SRAM, D/A and A/D converters, instrumentation amplifiers, custom power supply to medical isolation specification levels. This includes high speed FLASH memory, SRAM and both serial and parallel I/O interfaces for Clinical Diagnostic Products. This expert has also designed Telecomm Security Devices for National Defense Centers utilizing DRAM DIMMS, FLASH SIMMS, Battery Backed SRAM, PCMCIA, USB, Fast Ethernet, and high speed Enhanced Serial Communications Controllers performing Timing Analysis and Verification under Chronology Timing Designer. This expert has prior litigation experience including deposition.
Start USB Expert SearchExpert Witness #252049
This expert is the founder and Senior Engineer of an internationally recognized consultancy specializing in USB Power Delivery and Battery Charging. This expert brings to the table many years as Senior R&D Engineer. In the realm of USB Power Delivery and Battery Charging, this expert has:
- Co-authored several USB standards- Developed a SW package for the USB-C Power Delivery standard- Developed the digital parts of an electronic marker chip for cables used in the USB-C ecosystem- Developed embedded IP for USB-C Power Delivery- Designed and reviewed USB related functions- Served as Technical Lead on the first and second generation of USB-charger chips- Developed the power circuit for the first USB On The Go phone- Reviewed chipsets to be used for compliance to standards- Served as technical expert for the developing standard for 2mm charging plugs- Heavily involved in writing the USB-Battery-charging standard in versions 1.1 and 1.2.- Served as Sub group chair for a new generation of USB Power Delivery standard- Made the basic schematic for the compliance tester for USB BC1.2 and continues work on the compliance tester for USB Power Delivery- Several patents, some in the USB arenaamong other things. This expert is producing a protocol stack for the USB Power Delivery specifications. This expert's litigation experience is limited. This expert has not yet been deposed or testified.
Start USB Expert SearchExpert Witness #252056
This expert is the Founder and Principal Engineer of a nationally recognized consultancy specializing in USB Power specifically and Power Electronics and Power Delivery. This expert has extensive knowledge of the whole area of providing power through data cables. This includes the competing fast charge standards and the upcoming PPS (Programmable Power Supply) technology. This expert was a part of the USB working group developing the specification, and had the first silicon realization of the standard. This expert designed numerous linear, buck and boost power supplies. These ranged from 12V to 5V buck switchers with linear regulation, to 2KV flyback power supplies, and an innovative direct offline power supply and included transformers / inductors, circuit design and build and test activities. As part of a four-year University course, this expert spent a year with the a power group designing physics magnet power supplies with up to 200A outputs and a new form of current monitoring transformer. As a consultant, this expert has designed a number of on silicon power supplies - both switching and linear. This expert was invited to join a USB Power Delivery Working Group. This expert's assignment was to develop silicon to support the standardization effort there. Some of this expert's code is a part of that standard. For a while this expert's consultancy had the only silicon realization of this technology, and sold IP to the major players. While this expert has no direct litigation experience, as a Senior Director, part of the role was working with legal on patent filing and patent infringement issues.
Start USB Expert SearchExpert Witness #263714
This expert holds an MS in Engineering and serves as President and CTO for a highly sought-after consultancy. This expert specializes in Electronic Imaging Systems, Electronic & Wireless Transfer Systems, Hardware & Software Development, and Product Development & Enhancements.
This expert is very familiar with the systems used for the capture and transfer of video/images and their wireless transfer. This expert served in several technical and management roles for a public company including Research Scientist, Chief Engineer, and Program Manager all dealing with digital imaging and Advanced Digital Camera operations. As such, this expert was hands-on with efforts regarding:
- defining, and performing R&D projects focused on hybrid imaging systems- the design and programming of DSP-based image processing solutions requiring multiple DSPs- leading a team of engineers that developed a USB digital video camera. This video camera was capable of streaming video at one (lower) resolution, while also supporting the transfer of a second (higher) resolution image under the control of the host computer. This expert has several patents as a result of the development of this product. This expert later led a digital camera advanced development group that deployed numerous new product features including simultaneous (low res) video preview, compression and (hi res) capture to flash memory storage.Additionally, this expert has the hardware and software expertise to work with a legal team to devise and direct reverse engineering experiments and efforts directed to assessment of infringement. This expert is also familiar with the patent process, claims language and patents generally.
Start USB Expert SearchExpert Witness #209095
This expert has many years of experience in Computer Science and EE applications specializing in Device Communications, Media delivery, and remote access in a diverse set of technologies including Smartphone applications, USB command and control interfaces for USB Hub and Head Unit integration with Smartphones, and touchscreen interfaces.
This expert has been an expert on many cases including Smartphone, USB media device management, and remote control. his includes testifying in a mobile device communication suit where the judge found for this expert’s client and cited this expert on all points of contention in the case. This expert’s infringement analysis also contributed to a multi-million dollar settlement in a network transaction patent litigation. This expert has extensive experience providing expert reports for patent litigation, IPRs, deposition and trial testimony.
Start USB Expert SearchExpert Witness #226782
This expert is the principal of a successful computer consulting firm with extensive experience in innumerable aspects of technology, interfaces, products and systems, primarily for consumer electronics. Among this expert’s areas of specialty is USB technologies. This expert has been a software developer, project lead, industry analyst, seminar leader, technical marketer and technical writer. This expert has participated in over 80 conferences and industry events as a speaker, session chair, conference chair and conference advisory board member.
This expert has been retained as an expert witness and/or expert consultant in nearly one hundred engagements, including IPRs, involving patent, trade secret, copyright and patent portfolio reviews. This expert has written in excess of 30 expert reports, been deposed 21 times and has testified at trial eight times. Several of these have dealt with USB technologies. This expert has studied the USB specs extensively, and has performed USB bus analysis re: state transitions and bus operation. This expert has also performed product teardowns of various consumer electronics devices to study bus and circuit operation.
Start USB Expert SearchExpert Witness #226416
This USB/signal processing expert holds a PhD and PE and has extensive electrical engineering experience analyzing USB hub architectures, host control logic, and embedded electronic systems in patent litigation. This expert can evaluate patent issues involving multi-host USB hubs, USB bridges between hosts, and automotive head-unit control of USB connectivity.
This expert can assess whether automotive infotainment systems meet technical claim requirements, including issues involving host-to-host bridging, dynamic host switching, and head-unit-controlled USB routing. This expert is also well positioned to evaluate invalidity and obviousness by analyzing prior art USB hub designs, host-role management techniques, switching and routing architectures, and bridge-based communication systems that predate relevant patent claims.
This expert's work aligns patent claim elements, such as USB hub modules, host switching logic, and control pathways, with hardware and firmware behavior and the state of the art at relevant priority dates. This expert's combination of hands-on engineering expertise and patent litigation experience supports clear, technically grounded opinions on non-infringement and invalidity in matters involving complex automotive USB and CarPlay-related systems.
Start USB Expert SearchExpert Witness #226747
This USB expert is a software and embedded software/firmware developer and expert witness with over 40 years of experience, focusing primarily on copyright infringement and trade secret misappropriation through source code comparisons.
This expert has experience with patent infringement involving computer storage devices, including hard disk drives and storage controllers with SCSI, IDE/ATA, SATA, Fibre Channel, and USB interfaces.
This expert has worked as an employee and consultant for many computer storage device manufacturers, developing firmware for connection interfaces and detailed device operations, and has held leadership and advisory roles in prominent technology professional organizations.
Start USB Expert SearchExpert Witness #227328
This USB expert has designed and built hardware systems using USB in industry work and has spent decades as a developer for a major technology platform. This expert has experience using charging devices in a major consumer technology ecosystem, including USB hubs and AV adapters. This expert is a member of prominent engineering and computing professional associations and has access to relevant standards and ongoing publications.
This expert served as a testifying expert in litigation involving FireWire IEEE 1394, a forerunner of USB, and in litigation related to charging systems for tablet computers. This expert has extensive testifying experience, including Markman hearings and patent jury trials, with over 50 days of deposition testimony, a majority of which are in patent cases, and dozens of days of trial testimony.
Start USB Expert SearchExpert Witness #235625
This product design expert is an academic professor and program coordinator for an industrial design program at a well-regarded university, with over 35 years of experience in consumer product design.
This expert has been active as an industrial designer working on a wide range of products, from cell phones to juvenile products. This expert has designed many products to be manufactured with injection molding, including soft or flexible plastics. This expert's designs have been recognized in several design competitions and exhibitions.
This expert has served as an expert witness in over 50 cases, mostly involving patent litigation, and has testified over 10 times. These matters have included utility patent issues involving USB rotary housing design, tippy cup design, product design, chip design, and spiral potato design.
This expert has also led students in the design of glassware for foods and drinks.
Start USB Expert SearchExpert Witness #254386
This USB expert has over 30 years of experience involving USB 3.1 hubs, USB connectors and controllers, DC-to-DC power converters, power management systems, fast charging technologies, and high-rate USB data transmission for portable devices. This expert has a technical background that includes USB protocols, ASIC/FPGA development, SoC architecture, portable device connectivity, and high-bandwidth communication systems used in consumer electronics and computing platforms.
This expert has substantial experience designing and analyzing USB bridge devices, USB Power Delivery architectures, controller integration, and communication systems supporting simultaneous power delivery and data transmission. This expert has also served as a consulting and testifying expert in patent disputes involving USB technologies, semiconductor systems, communication interfaces, portable device architectures, and USB bridge technologies.
Start USB Expert SearchExpert Witness #270508
This network monitoring expert has over 40 years of experience with storage devices, embedded software systems for industry and consumer products, and related systems, including flash memory such as solid state disks, memory cards, and flash drives; optical storage such as CD, DVD, WORM, and magneto-optical storage; magnetic storage such as hard disks, floppy disks, and tape; RAID and disk arrays; jukeboxes; USB; SCSI; iSCSI; IDE/ATA/ATAPI/SATA; Fibre Channel; PCMCIA; game programming; home appliances; and telecommunications.
This expert has written and designed device drivers, software, and firmware for Windows, Linux, VxWorks, QNX, and other embedded real-time operating systems (RTOSs). Professional roles have included software developer, project lead, seminar presenter, and technical writer. Technical experience includes programming languages such as Java, Python, PHP, LabVIEW, C, C++, Delphi, C#, and assembly.
This expert has served as an expert witness and expert consultant in over 40 engagements involving patent, trade secret, copyright, class action, and contractual disputes, as well as patent portfolio reviews involving file systems, game programming, home appliance technology, telecommunications, and television control software. These engagements have drawn on over 30 years of experience in the software storage industry and over 40 years of experience as a computer engineer, and have involved technology in the consumer products, telecommunications, and storage industries.
This expert has written expert reports, been deposed, and provided courtroom testimony at trial. Engagements have involved source code analysis and comparisons, object code disassembly, benchmarking, computer media duplication, and forensic analysis on data storage devices and file systems using tools including EnCase, FTK, and DiskJocky.
This expert has worked on over 50 expert witness matters and has testified by deposition and at trial multiple times. Career experience has included work on networks internal and external to computer systems, including international communication networks. Prior projects have included building a system that periodically pinged computers on a network to detect computer hardware theft, and similar technology has been used to measure the availability of web systems.
This expert is an experienced expert witness and litigation consultant.
Start USB Expert SearchExpert Witness #289379
This USB expert has designed and engineered multiple successful consumer electronics products for a pro-audio electronics company over 20 years.
This expert has firsthand experience designing hardware for products and writing associated device firmware and desktop applications. This expert has designed hardware USB connectivity for products and written device firmware for USB communication, supporting USB HID and USB Audio communication standards.
This expert has a computer science background, has written firmware and software for embedded, desktop, and server applications, is familiar with USB standards for HID and Audio, has implemented device firmware for USB communication, and has written software for desktop computers to communicate with USB devices.
Start USB Expert SearchExpert Witness #289841
This USB/PCIe expert is a computer engineer widely recognized as one of the key inventors of the Universal Serial Bus (USB). This expert has obtained over 130 patents and has co-invented or spearheaded major technological innovations, including Accelerated Graphics Port, PCIe, Thunderbolt, USB Type-C, and other technologies, and remains a thought leader in the industry with multiple prestigious awards for this work.
Start USB Expert SearchExpert Witness #306322
This mobile device forensics expert founded and directs a consultancy providing computer and mobile device forensics for litigation support. This expert has completed over 1,000 electronic evidence examinations globally and has forensically imaged thousands of computers, USB devices, cellular and smartphones, and other devices. This expert holds a BS in Information Technology, is a member of a professional forensic computer examiner association, and is a licensed Certified Computer Examiner and Certified Cellebrite Cell Phone Examiner.
This mobile device forensics expert holds a BS in Physics, an MS in Electrical Engineering, a PhD in Applied Mathematics, and a master's in financial engineering. This expert is a computer forensic and cellphone examiner, a licensed Private Investigator, and has qualified as a Computer Forensic Expert in State and Federal court.
Both experts are experienced expert witnesses and litigation consultants.
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